Hi Team,
It's been a while. I've recently given up on trying to find ways to trick the
installer into working where a service needs to be started that relies on a
copy of the CRT or .NET that the installer has to put on..An age old tale of
mystery.
I've finally produced a bootstrapped installer, I've always suspected that it
will cause me a headache, but the generation of it was pretty simple.. I have
my main installer, then a second installer that just has an exe and the service
control stuff in it. Sadly the user now has to uninstall 2 programs, and I just
know users will forget to do this. It seems that the bootstrapper (I used
setupbld) doesn't notice that one of the packages it is about to install is
already on the system, so carries on anyway.
I guess this will be more of a request for burn... will(does) it:
- have only one item in the uninstall list that represents many msi's chained.
- allow a post install script to be run so I wouldn't need this second
lightweight installer at all
- check for the presence of any of the chained msis before attempting to
install, and react according to some command line option?
one day we'll get this right I'm sure .whatever happened to that portable
executable idea, I liked that.
Simon
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